EU law only serves citizens if properly implemented. Training of justice professionals on EU law is essential to ensure the correct and coherent application of EU law across the EU, to improve mutual trust and to foster a common judicial European culture, including on the rule of law. This repor...
This is the sixth report since the adoption of the EU's European Judicial Training Strategy in 2011. A lot of progress has been made since then. For example, one of the objectives of the strategy, to train half of all justice professionals on EU law by 2020, will already be achieved next year. T...
After a public consultation on proposed reforms to investment protection and the investor-dispute settlement framework of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States of America, the European Parliament requested the replacement of the traditional arbitration ...
The legal order created by the European Union shapes our political life and society. Individuals are not merely citizens of their country, town or district; they are also Union citizens. 'The ABC of EU law' by Prof. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt examines the roots of the European project and its develo...
This study was requested by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament. It examines the political and institutional steps taken, or to be taken, both by the UK and by the EU in the context of the Brexit referendum vote, and into how matters may evolve in the coming months...
The workshop organised by the Policy Department A for the IMCO Committee aimed at discussing problems in the area of franchising and the impact of the EU rules on functioning of the franchising contract. It allowed exchange of views on market conditions in the EU as well as corrective legislativ...
This study examines the advantages and disadvantages of the practice of separate opinions. After an analysis of its diffusion in the Member States' Supreme and Constitutional Courts, it presents the practice of international tribunals. Finally, the reasons why the publication of separate opinion...
This is the fifth report on training for legal practitioners (judges, prosecutors, court staff, bailiffs, lawyers and notaries) on EU law or on the national law of another Member State. It is based on the results of a questionnaire sent in 2016 to Member States’ authorities, European networks of...
